I'm a public defender and I know my client is probably guilty but I also know he won't get a fair trial because he's Black and poor and I'm losing sleep over whether fighting harder makes me complicit in a broken system or if giving up makes me complicit in his destruction.
More people experience this than they realize.
The moral weight of operating within an unjust system while trying to serve justice creates an impossible ethical bind.
“Where Are You with Criminal justice systems globally?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.